Gustav KIRCHGATTER

KIRCHGATTER, WALK, VIRCHOW, KRUGER, KRIEGER, LANGE, FENNER, MULLENHAUER, MOLDENHAUER, SELMER, CLAUSEN, CROFT, CRAMER, NACK, SILLMAN, THRONE

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 6/14/2010 at 10:02:52

St. Ansgar Enterprise - Iowa
May 13, 1931

Gustav Kirchgatter, a pioneer of this vicinity dropped dead here about eleven o'clock Sunday morning. He had just attended church and was walking on the street when he was stricken. Medical aid was summoned at once, but he was pronounced dead. Mr. Kirchgatter was born December 1, 1864 in Germany and came to America with is parents when about two years old, first coming to Wisconsin and later to Iowa, settling on a farm near Grafton. Since his marriage to Emma Walk about 40 years ago, he had lived on his farm in Barton township, Worth County. Besides his wife, he leaves five daughters Mrs. Walter Virchow, Mrs. Alfred Kruger and Vera of Grafton; Mrs. Wm. Krieger of Mason City and Mrs. Lloyd Lange, Milwaukee. One son, Ben, passed away just one week before his father and was buried last Tuesday. He also leaves three sisters, Mrs. Mullenhauer, Whittemore; Mrs. Selmer, Canby, Minnesota; and Mrs. Don Nack, Grafton; and four brothers, August of Mason City, Fred of Corwith, Herman of St. Paul and Albert of Fairmont, Minnesota.

Funeral services were held Tuesday and burial was in the local cemetery. The church was filled and many had to remain outside. Mr. Kirchgatter was a pioneer of this locality and had a host of friends. Out of town relatives and friends included Mr. and Mrs. Albert Kirchgatter, Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Kirchgatter, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Fenner and Mr. and Mrs. Geo Throne of Fairmont, Minnesota; Mrs. and Mrs. Fred Kirchgatter and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kirchgatter and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kirchgatter, all of Corwith, Iowa; Mrs. Bertha Moldenhauer and son, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Moldenhauer, all of Algona, Iowa; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Clausen and Ernest Croft of Renwick, Iowa; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Walk and children of Kanawha, Iowa; C.F. Cramer and children of Hayfield, Minnesota ; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sillman and son of Canby, Minnesota; Herman Kirchgatter and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Kirchgatter of Biscay, Minnesota; and George Krueger, Clara City and many relatives from Mason City.